Lead Nurse for Quality
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £49,777.43 to £54,105.90 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49777.43 - £54105.90 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | Hereford, HR4 0DG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | S0001-25-0032 |
Summary
The Lead Nurse for Quality will support the Medical Director, the AD of Nursing and Clinical Services, and the wider team to deliver clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, high quality care and consistent achievement of care standards. The post-holder will provide leadership to facilitate consistent best practice. To oversee the governance, quality assurance and compliance of services provided by Taurus Healthcare, ensuring alignment with regulatory frameworks such as Care Quality Commission standards. To oversee clinical governance activities for Taurus Healthcare regulated activity, including Much Birch Surgery, to ensure high quality, safe and effective patient care. To provide senior nursing leadership for Taurus Healthcare strengthen general practice nursing. To promote a safety and quality culture across Taurus Healthcare services to continuously drive and inform continuous improvement in the care delivered. To be the strategic lead for Infection Prevention and Control for Taurus Healthcare. KEY FUNCTIONS: Support the delivery of the organisations governance, quality, risk and regulatory compliance agenda to meet local, regional and national requirements: continue our effective incident and complaints processes and further develop our embedded learning and safety culture. oversee the process for management of incidents, concerns, complaints and litigation, and provide support for the organisation to participate in these investigations; ensuring we provide a dynamic, high quality, responsive and proactive approach. oversee the liaison and next steps in learning from incidents from within the organisation or shared across Herefordshire General Practice, including effective communication e.g. newsletters and leading discussions within forums, meetings or Taurus Healthcare board. oversee the organisations risk register. Provide strategic oversight and operational expertise in patient safety software system, (including being the named software asset owner and administrator) for Taurus Healthcare. Provide strategic direction and representation for nurses and allied health professionals in Taurus clinical services, alongside nurse leads. To provide robust Clinical Governance for Taurus Healthcare services: o promote a just and safe culture across the organisation. o ensure compliance with healthcare legislation and regulations through the delivery of quality assurance strategies, policies and operational frameworks. o ensure service compliance with all clinical governance activities, including audit, clinical risk management, IPC, safeguarding, patient safety and patient experience. o oversee internal and external governance and quality related reporting. o advise and when required lead investigations, the development and implementation of action plans, and their delivery within agreed timescales. o ensure the highest standards of quality and safety reporting and clinical governance activities are maintained within the organisation. o ensure effective mechanisms for patient feedback are in place which inform and support a culture of continuous learning and improvement. o Lead and support the review process for policies, procedures and standard operating procedures. o demonstrate the acquisition and application of knowledge in line with current research and evidence based practice. o promote a positive learning environment. o To attend and provide clinical representation at Taurus Health and Safety Committee. To provide the following lead functions for Taurus Healthcare: o Safeguarding Lead, (alongside the Medical Director) and provide the annual safeguarding report to Herefordshire General Practice board. o DOLS and mental capacity lead for Taurus Healthcare. o IPC Lead. o CQC Lead, in support of the Registered Manager and with support from Central Services Office for Quality and Governance overseeing the CQC compliance of Taurus Healthcare. To ensure follow up of all related internal and external governance and quality related reports, coordinating the development and implementation of action plans, and their delivery within agreed timescales. To develop and deliver corporate quality and safety objectives. To support professional concerns and fitness to practice matters, supporting associate directors in the organisation in the management of these. To provide quarterly quality reports into Performance Management Board and other meetings as required. To attend and contribute to the agenda of One Herefordshires Safety in Sync meetings. * A full Job Description & Person Specification is attached to this advert*